Sead Pilica v. John Ashcroft

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “even at its most favorable, [the applicant’s] live testimony did not measure up to the claims made in [the] asylum requests”
• holding that the IJ “did not err in using [the applicant]’s failure to provide corroborating evidence as further support for the negative credibility finding”
• holding that an Albanian citizen who was jailed after participating in two demonstrations and suffered head injuries following a third demonstration did not demonstrate that he had been persecuted
• explaining that an “IJ’s adverse credibility findings ... ‘are conclusive unless any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary’ ”
• explaining that an “IJ’s adverse credibility findings . . . ‘are conclusive unless any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary’”
• noting that “all of the occurrences that arguably constitute past persecution resulted directly from Pilica’s attendance at a demonstration rather than from the government having sought him out”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).